Sweet! Web Site Winner Displays Dessert Wares With NYC Establishment

Mixed in with the Karen Demascos, the Johnny Iuzzinis, and all the other pastry bigwigs at last night’s SWEET event (read: dessert smorgasboard) at the New York City Wine & Food Festival, was New Yorker of one week, Jessica Mogardo. The winner of the Web site Eater.com’s SWEET contest, the pastry chef – who until very recently was employed at Todd English’s da Campo Osteria in Ft. Lauderdale — was given a booth at the event after gastronomically knocking out the blog’s editors with her seasonal peach cobbler. “After reading about the contest, I came to the Eater offices at Astor Place with my cobbler and was informed I was the winner four days later,” she said, while serving up a “candied apple” with rosemary, curry and maple. “Now I’m back in New York, but for a longer stay — I have a new job as a pastry chef at SD26.”